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But Tilo had crept up on him, and become a kind of compulsion, an addiction almost. Addiction has its own mnemonics — skin, smell, the length of the loved one’s fingers. In Tilo’s case it was the slant of her eyes, the shape of her mouth, the almost ­invisible scar that slightly altered the symmetry of her lips and made her look defiant even when she did not mean to, the way her nostrils flared, announcing her displeasure even before her eyes did. The way she held her shoulders. The way she sat on the pot stark naked and smoked cigarettes. So many years of marriage, the fact that she was not young any more — and did nothing to pretend otherwise — didn’t change the way he felt. Because it had to do with more than all that. It was the haughtiness (despite the question mark over her ‘stock’, as his mother had not hesitated to put it). It had to do with the way she lived, in the country of her own skin. A country that issued no visas and seemed to have no consulates.
Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness addiction love

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Unscramble ARUNDHATI9-letter words that start with A9-letter words that end in I9-letter words containing RU9-letter words containing TI9-letter words with A and R
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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NEE
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